Conditions: Rainy then clearing, 71F
Time: 9:00a-11:30p
Predominant Bug(s): Tricos!
This most recent outing was a particularly great one only because I got to get my trout fix on for the first time in months! Yes months! Gloomy was a good descriptor of the morning's weather as I set out for the short hike to one of my favorite sites within the park. Once there, the familiar sights and sounds of splashy rises greeted the senses. A quick glance in a small eddy revealed the hatch of the moment. Tricos!
The spinner fall was full on at riffle upstream, but due to the incoming rain, I couldn't keep the tiny flies at the surface where our friends were feeding at the moment. After a few minutes of trying to make do with a now drowned trico imitation, I added a small pheasant tail dropper and indicator and began working the pool.
On my third or fourth good drift through the smack dab middle of the pool, I saw my indicator hesitate, I set, and it was fightin' time! Clearly agitated by a hook in his maw, the little ball of energy put on a beautiful aerial show for me before succumbing to a gently placed net. It ended up being a very nice 12" Oatka wild brown. I need to take more close up pictures of these guys as this one was particularly vivid!
I didn't have much more luck as the spinner fall was ending around 11am and everything seemed to quiet way down. A little more time with nymphs and streamers still yielded nothing, so I decided to call it a day.
Family and friends are coming into town for our much belated Housewarming Party so Saturday will be a wash fishing wise. Hopefully, dad and I will be recovered enough come Sunday morning so I can bring him to our wonderful fishery for the first time!
That's it from me! Till next time and I hopefully you'll heed my advice more than I do myself when I say get out there and fish!
